Retained Fire Fighter benifits

cat200

hi all, i was wondering if anyone can help me, two years ago i applied for reatined fire fighter as i was working nights and was able to do the hours. i passed all tests and was ready to join but got offerd full time position in my job and was told dont go for retained as it wouldnt be enough money compared to my full job which was 40 hours aweek on minimum wage which averaged out as £13,000 a year so i didnt go for it in the end.

now my hours been cut in work and it has been my life long dream to be a fire fighter but i still need to be financilly viable. so question is on a full time contract of 120 hours a week. what help from any tax credits could i get to make up my wage as i would now with my hours reduced be on roughly 11.000-12.000 a year, and would go for the fire service if with help of tax credits be worth doing it.

is any one in retained duty that could help on this.

my application for hsbc is on hold from my last post.

cat200

hi im 26, and about to move in with my girlfriend who has a 3 year old. i have no disabilities either.

so regardles of what my hours will drop down too, beciase i earned 13,000 last year it will affect any benifits i could claim? even tho ive never claimed any benits in my life

patman99

I thought being a retained FF was well-paid ?.

I used to work for a firm in Suffolk and one of my colleagues was engaged to a RFF. Her oh was employed in the same town he was stationed at, so was always available to get to the fire station within the required 10 minutes.
She revealed that, with training, retained ff allowance and call-outs, he was getting around £1,200 p/m.

Interestingly, a huge number of his retained colleagues worked as full-time firefighters for London Fire Service and did the retained role on their days off. They were getting in excess of £3.5k p/m as well as setting themselves up for a huge pension with two Brigades putting money in.

cat200

not to my knowledge, they get roughly 2000-3000 a year based on what contract you do and what hours you can provide the station, and then get money for every call out you get. on average i think my local station would earn about 700-900 a month depending on call out and doing the full 120 hours aweek on call, so its not as well paid.

ah right so im gonna be screwd this year no matter what hours i do then haha.